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Any idea what the deal is with this book?

It's supposed to have come out sometime this spring -- there are various release dates: April 4, May 30, April 1 (which made me wonder if it was an April Fool's joke). It has only one review on Amazon, which is weird. It's not available as a Kindle book on Amazon, which is also weird. It's available in hard copy on Amazon from third-party sellers and Amazon Global, but not in Kindle format. It does appear to be real, despite the April 1 publication date on Google. Google Play also has an audiobook version available for sale.

But it's not listed in Tchaikovsky's bio in Wikipedia, and the press that purports to have published it (Head of Zeus) has a page for it, but the book isn't actually showing there.

Anyone have any more information?

(This is a query for the benefit of someone who says that "I know fans." DW seemed like the logical fannish venue to try.)

Date: 2019-06-22 08:02 pm (UTC)
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Unless you recognize one of them, the third-party sellers are not a good indicator. At least some of them scrape book data from other sites, and put everything up for sale - and when you order one of the books they don't have in stock, they go buy it from someone else, and then ship it to you. This is also part of the reason why you sometimes see ridiculous prices on some uncommon books - site a lists the book for $20, site b scrapes it and lists it for $25, site c scrapes site b, adding more to the price. Somewhere in here, site a sees someone listing it for twice their price, and raises it, which then propagates through.

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